Science/Math
Predictable text, repetitive phrase 'Over in the meadow...'
Animals (turtle, fish, owl, mouse, bee, crow, frog, lizard, duck, beaver) and numbers (1-10)

A rhyming, counting book of woodland creatures, birds, and bugs. ( )

"Over in the Meadow" by Olive Wadsworth, was a series of poems about the different animals living in the meadows. It was a series of small poems that were about different animals in the meadows, ponds and outdoors. This book was to help me do research on my children's book. I want to use rhyme and a type of poetry like this book. ( )

This book was great due to the sequencing with numbers and the illustrations that the author uses. The sequencing with numbers goes from numbers one through ten, using animals to make it interesting and more relatable to younger students. I also like the illustrations the author uses. They have the words of how man animals there are and then an illustration of those animals to accompany the words. This will be extremely helpful for visual learners. The purpose of this story is to aid readers in learning the numbers one through ten. ( )

The book Over in the Meadow is a great book for beginning readers. This book is full of fun rhymes that also work on counting. Each animal comes with a new rhyme about where they are and how many babies they have. My favorite rhyme was “ Over in the meadow, in a hole in a tree, lived a mother bluebird and her little birdies three. “Sing!” said the mother. “We sing,” said the three. So they sang and were glad, in the hole in the tree”. This combination or rhymes and counting will make it easy for beginning readers to catch onto the pattern and the flow of the book. The illustrations also help make the book interesting for readers. Each page describes a new animal doing an action specific to that animal and the illustrations help the reader see that action and see how many animals are involved. Theses illustrations are assets to the readers because from the pattern of the book you are able to guess what the words on each page will say. Although there is no moral or big idea to this book, I would still recommend the book to beginning readers. ( )